Ebstein: Financial Literacy Was Essential to Scale Business Past $10 Million
Ephraim Ebstein · His Former Boss Later Became His Employee · May 19, 2026 · at 5:58
Ephraim Ebstein, an MSP entrepreneur, describes to Sean Weisbrot how learning to read and make decisions from P&L statements helped him break through a revenue plateau.
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“Forced me to get, you know, literate with the financials and start to really understand them. And that was a big, that was one component of a few components that kind of helped me break past the ten million dollar mark and being able to read those, understand them and make decisions based on them.”
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